Hayabusa Drag Racing

Barry Henson knows 'Busas. Never apperception that bitchin' Bimota featured a few pages back--that's just Henson's play bike. When it comes to his business, Velocity Racing, he builds about all Suzuki Hayabusas, and he builds them fast. In fact, the Hayabusa that Henson raced in the AMA/Prostar Streetbike Shootout antagonism endure division is the fastest and quickest Hayabusa in the world, at 7.82 abnormal at 190.67 mph in the quarter-mile.

All this acceleration and ability doesn't appear easy, however, and Henson is consistently developing new technology and testing articles both on the dyno and the road. There is no such affair as chump beta testing at Velocity--everything Velocity sells is accurate technology. And if it's a 'Busa allotment you are buying, affairs are the ancestor was put through the paces on one of these two bikes, Velocity Racing's Hayabusa analysis mules. Henson's new account are experimented with on these bikes first, and as such, these are apparently the two trickest Hayabusas on Earth.

Henson owns the orange bike and rides it consistently on the street. The dejected bike belongs to a acceptable acquaintance of Henson's, Jeff Steinberg, and is aswell a committed artery machine. Both are 2000 models, and both are turbocharged by Velocity--but that's area the similarities end.

Steinberg's bike has been through assorted evolutions over the accomplished three years. When he aboriginal brought the bike to Henson it was for one of Velocity's basal Stage One turbo kits, but today it is able with the a lot of abolitionist turbo arrangement that Velocity offers, a full-blown, 550 hp (!) chase amalgamation featuring Velocity's stand-alone fuel-injection system.

The turbo itself is the latest GT35 archetypal from Garrett, a awful able bifold ball-bearing assemblage with an alien wastegate (the second, abate dump aqueduct departure the fairing) to abate aback burden and calefaction on the turbo. This is commutual with Velocity's own water-injection arrangement in abode of a heavy, akin intercooler--which uses a attempt of baptize into the assimilation amplitude to air-conditioned the assimilation charge. The stand-alone fuel-injection arrangement is congenital to Velocity's specs by Autronics, and is absolutely programmable via an chip datalogger. The base accouter has been gutted and the absolute bike has been rewired from blemish by Henson to run through this data-gathering system. It's absolutely the aforementioned bureaucracy that Henson runs on his Shootout racebike.